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Let the mind beware, that though the flesh be bugged, the circumstances of existence are pretty glorious.

Jack Kerouac

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Jack Kerouac
Age: 47 †
Born: 1922
Born: March 13
Died: 1969
Died: October 21
Novelist
Poet
Screenwriter
Writer
East Chelmsford
Massachusetts
Jean-Louis Lebris de Kérouac
Jean-Louis Lebris de Kerouac
Kerouac
Jean-Louis Kerouac
Existence
Bugged
Though
Gorges
Mind
Beware
Glorious
Flesh
Circumstances
Pretty
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